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Annb said:
I'm looking for a recipe for a nice, moist fruit cake. I have several fruit cake recipes but I'm not convinced that they are not too dry. Fruit cake is my brother's favourite and I want to have one available when they visit - not a Christmas type cake, you understand, but an afternoon tea kind of cake. Does anyone have a trusted recipe I could borrow?
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Before diagnosis, I used to adore my late MIL's Dundee cake @Annb. It was never dry, but not puddingy either.
That said, I expect you already have a Dundee cake recipe.
 
MrsA2 said:
It was the rain water from the storm flooding into the cable, whole village affected.... luckily fixed within the hour. Local telephone exchange floods regularly too, but not so vital in these days of mobiles
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So not unrelated to weather patterns then @MrsA2. More action could be taken to mitigate against flood damage, IMO.
 
LivingLightly said:
The halva once available from health food shops @RosemaryJackson was made with vanilla flavoured sesame seeds and was choc full of sugar. (I dread to think what it would do to blood glucose levels!) If memory serves, the brand I encountered was imported from Israel.

Of course nothing you can buy tastes half as good as things you make yourself.
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I worked in the health food shop over 40 years ago a long, long time before I was diagnosed with diabetes. I haven't seen it for years altho it could have contributed to becoming diabetic
 
Breakfast: bacon and eggs. BG is in the 6's and I didn't take insulin because there were no carbs in the breakfast.
2nd meal will be duck breast, probably with leeks and some dried, soaked, sour cherries mixed through them.

Biscuit making today - prep for the Royal Visit in a few days. Will make the fruit cake when I can get some tinned pineapple.
 
Annb said:
I'm looking for a recipe for a nice, moist fruit cake. I have several fruit cake recipes but I'm not convinced that they are not too dry. Fruit cake is my brother's favourite and I want to have one available when they visit - not a Christmas type cake, you understand, but an afternoon tea kind of cake. Does anyone have a trusted recipe I could borrow?
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www.deliaonline.com

Very Fruity Irish Tea Cake

There are many versions of this and the type of tea used varies from what I call common tea to… you name it. But more importantly we have crammed in as much fruit as we could. Thus it keeps very moist and, later on, toasts beautifully. The Delia Online Cookery School: You can watch how to make...
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This is the one I use - still do but for others I stay away from it! I use ordinary tea and use marmalade rather than peel. I also soak fruit in tea overnight which really plumps up the fruit
 
Had close family over to celebrate my birthday it's tomorrow but youngest son working. Lovely time together photo of my youngest as eldest struggles with even being there definitely no photos. He used Waitrose chocolate mini cupcakes for most and a low carb chocolate brownie for me so that I got to blow the candles out
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shelley262 said:
www.deliaonline.com

Very Fruity Irish Tea Cake

There are many versions of this and the type of tea used varies from what I call common tea to… you name it. But more importantly we have crammed in as much fruit as we could. Thus it keeps very moist and, later on, toasts beautifully. The Delia Online Cookery School: You can watch how to make...
www.deliaonline.com www.deliaonline.com
This is the one I use - still do but for others I stay away from it! I use ordinary tea and use marmalade rather than peel. I also soak fruit in tea overnight which really plumps up the fruit
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Another recipe that looks good. Which to choose, which to choose?
 
Quiet Sunday
Full fat greek with 2 strawberries and milled seeds
A bit of gardening
A bit of cheese and a small ice cream
Over to sons for a bit of gardening followed by bbq, 2 sausages 2 beefburgers and grilled veg. Some wine was drunk.

If only all Sundays were this easy
 
shelley262 said:
Had close family over to celebrate my birthday it's tomorrow but youngest son working. Lovely time together photo of my youngest as eldest struggles with even being there definitely no photos. He used Waitrose chocolate mini cupcakes for most and a low carb chocolate brownie for me so that I got to blow the candles out
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Happy birthday @shelley262. Clever youngest son, devising a birthday cake you could all share.
 
MrsA2 said:
When in doubt always go for the Delia!
That's life advice that never fails, has stood me in good stead many times. Never had a recipe of hers fail.
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I might make both and let my brother decide which is best. He is the fruit cake fan/expert. Any left over will be used by someone - I don't expect "Royal Visitors" will want to take it away with them - not much space on the bus for cakes.
 
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Thank you so much for my lovely birthday wishes for today. We had a lovely day in Worcester walking around some of the 60 penguins on the penguin trail @PenguinMum I'm sure you'd like this. Here's a photograph of one of the penguins in Worcester
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I've posted my meal in main thread but we ate in Cote rather than Nandos as Nandos was off putting as so busy. But cote was great and easy to be low carb plus good food at a reasonable price.
 
Meant to do some more cooking today, but ended up doing a lot of tidying of the house - still plenty to do - so ended up cooking nothing and have only just got around to soaking some sour cherries to go with the leeks that I am having with duck breast. I meant to have that yesterday but it got too late to cook, so I didn't bother. Must cook the duck today before it goes past its use-by date.

Breakfast was raspberries and cream. Other than that I've just had cups of tea today - not as many as I should've though.
 
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